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Our mission is to engage readers, support writers, and inspire the next generation with great literature.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

July 30, 2025
Oregon Literary Fellowships Drop-In Information Session
July 30, 2025
BIPOC Reading Series – July
August 6, 2025
One Page Wednesday – August
August 21, 2025
Slamlandia
August 22, 2025
EXTINCTION CAPITAL OF THE WORLD: Mariah Rigg
August 27, 2025
BIPOC Reading Series – August
August 28, 2025
Theatre Diaspora Presents: A Staged Reading of Isabel
September 4, 2025
The Ghostkeeper: Johanna Taylor
September 10, 2025
Incite: Queer Writers Read – September
October 23, 2025
Bookmark: A Benefit for Literary Arts
October 28, 2025
Timothy Snyder in Conversation

WRITING CLASSES

July 28, 2025
The Break with Kaveh Akbar
August 4, 2025
The Art of the Gut Renovation: Revising as Rebuilding
August 5, 2025
Close Reading and Imitation: A Generative Workshop
August 6, 2025
Poems Against Decay: Online Writing Workshop
August 9, 2025
Writing A Picture Book Primer
August 16, 2025
Short Story: Take Two!
August 16, 2025
Making a Picture Book Dummy
August 20, 2025
Ready, Set, Submit: Demystifying the Submission Process
September 2, 2025
Get Writing
September 3, 2025
The Art of Fiction
September 6, 2025
CLARIFYING YOUR NONFICTION BOOK CONCEPT
September 6, 2025
9,131 Sentences: Reverse-Engineering Great Writing
September 7, 2025
Grief Spiral: Writing Elegies Along a Curved Path
September 10, 2025
Nine Month Novel Intensive: Wednesdays
September 11, 2025
Six Month Memoir Intensive
September 11, 2025
Nine Month Novel Intensive: Thursdays
September 16, 2025
Oulipo: Generative Experiments in Constrained Writing
September 18, 2025
Write the Self: Eight Week Online Intensive
September 18, 2025
Writing the Weird
September 20, 2025
Write the Self: Weekend Intensive
September 24, 2025
Scene Writing for Memoir
September 27, 2025
To Have and Keep a Beautiful Mind: A Multigenre Writing Workshop
October 2, 2025
The Finish Line: Weekly Accountability
October 5, 2025
SEE IT TO BELIEVE IT: VISUAL POETRY WORKSHOP
October 6, 2025
Nonfiction Book Pitches That Sell: Writing a Winning Proposal
October 6, 2025
Stealing from the best: A fiction writing technique class
October 7, 2025
Nature Writing Seminar
October 13, 2025
Writing Outside of the Self
October 21, 2025
Tools for Nonfiction Narrative Writing
October 30, 2025
Memoir Foundations: Writing the Truth Without Losing the Thread
October 30, 2025
Building worlds of Wonder: Speculative Fiction
November 1, 2025
Prompts and Play
November 4, 2025
WRITING EKPHRASTIC POETRY
November 12, 2025
Art of the Article Pitch
November 16, 2025
Every Force Evolves a Form

A Statement from Literary Arts

Committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Literary Arts denounces white supremacy in all its manifestations and we acknowledge our role in having contributed to and benefitted from the racist systems that still flourish in our community and the nation.

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